VOLUTA. 519 



Voluta ringens. Solander's MSS. 



Voluta, No. 25. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 254. 



Oliva hiatula. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xvi. p. 325. 



Le Poincon. Favanne, ii. p. 764. t. 19- f. C 1 and C 2. 



Lister Conch, t. 729. f. 17. Adanson Senegal, t. 4. f. 7. 



Martini, ii. p. 185. t.50. f. 555. Enc. Meth. t. 368. f.5. 



Inhabits the Mouths of the Niger. Adanson. Isle of France. 



Favanne. 

 Shell about an inch and a half long, and rather more than one 

 third as broad ; yellowish grey, more or less tinged with ci- 

 nereous, and is either without markings, or mottled, or 

 streaked with reddish brown. It is most nearly allied to V. 

 Ispidula, but it may be at once distinguished by its broader . 

 aperture which widens downwards, by the belt being single, 

 and by^the longitudinal ridges at the base of the pillar. The 

 vitreous coat which lines the base of the whirls and the belt 

 is generally either brown, or of a darker colour than the rest 

 of the shell, and the throat is bluish or brownish white. 



mvea. 40. Shell ovate, polished, with the spire 

 very prominent and conical ; aperture widen- 

 ing downwards ; belt double. 



Voluta nivea. Gmelin, p. 3442. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 1 10. 



Voluta lubrica. Solander's MSS. 



Voluta, No. 28. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 215. 



Oliva eburnea. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xvi. p. 526. 



Le Grain de Ble. Favanne, ii. p. 836. 1. 19. f. 1 1. 



Martini, ii. t. 50. f. 557 and 558. 



Inhabits the coasts of St. Domingo, Martinique, Isle of 

 France, Mindanao, and Guinea. Favanne. 



Shell near three quarters of an inch long, and about one third 

 as broad ; much polished, and of a pure white, either with- 

 out any markings, or with two narrow interrupted bands of 

 pale violet ; the shell is slightly flattened on the side of the 

 aperture, and a vitreous callosity extends from its upper an- 

 gle along the pillar-lip. 



jaspidea. 41. Shell sub-fusiform ; spire very pro- 

 minent and acute ; belt double, with waved 

 purple stripes. 



Voluta Jaspidea. Gmelin, p. 3442. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 110. 

 Voluta, No. 26. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 254. 

 Oliva conoidalis. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 325. 



